Generating realistic network traffic and interactive application workloads using container technology

摘要

Real network traffic is mostly generated by an interactive session between applications, thus we feel that there is a strong demand for a solution capable to reproduce these interactive application workloads. For this purpose, we propose a new strategy for generating realistic network traffic and interactive application workloads using container technology. In this article, we also demonstrate why lightweight container technology is chosen in our strategy compared with virtual machines, which also are widely used in virtualization. Finally, we present some experimental results gathered in the prototype system we have implemented.